FilmScene, Iowa City’s nonprofit cinema, is a proud partner of Science on Screen®. An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Science on Screen® supports recipients efforts to present films that—directly or indirectly—are connected to science.
A man copes with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer’s disease while she transfers her affections to another patient at the nursing home.
The Arc of Oblivion illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories for ever.
When his young daughter’s beloved companion, an android named Yang, malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair it.
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years before have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.